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jep, if you have copies of these items and thus know who else has responded to them, you may want to consider writing emails to everyone who responded asking for their permission to delete their responses. Then, if the vote goes to restore your items, you can still get most of them deleted. The few comments that would be left probably wouldnt be very damaging to you. I imagine that most folks would be willing to allow you to delete their comments. I know I would.
You have several choices: